Based on a chapter originally published on October 17, 2015, this passage offers a harsh critique of the postwar Japanese media environment, Chinese political manipulation, and the role of newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun in sustaining the fabrication surrounding the Nanjing incident.
Using Masayuki Takayama’s America and China Arrogantly Lie as a key reference, it links together the Mainichi Shimbun’s “hundred-man killing contest” story, China’s use of Japanese ODA, Katsuichi Honda’s narratives, and the spread of postwar masochistic historical views, arguing that “every conceivable form of evil” converged in the fabrication of the Nanjing incident.
The passage also attacks the hollowness of writers and intellectuals who curry favor with Asahi, denouncing the poison that has long circulated through Japan’s discourse and characterizing China as a realm of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
It is a fiercely worded critique of the interconnection between postwar journalism, ideology, and Japan’s China policy.

2019-04-22
Just as any person, if he seriously devotes himself to the same thing for three years, becomes fully competent…
If one were to spend all the hours of one’s life on the profession called writing…
He is such a fool that he does not even know that books bought by shallow trend-followers throughout the world can be written by anyone.

This is a chapter originally published on October 17, 2015.
There is probably no book that conveys the truth of the Nanjing Massacre more than page 102 and after of Masayuki Takayama’s America and China Arrogantly Lie.
I am convinced…
That there are few things in which every kind of evil is involved as much as in the fabrication of the Nanjing Massacre incident.
In order to make this appear true…
Takayama taught me that Liao Chengzhi confined in Beijing, together with his family, the Mainichi Shimbun reporter who wrote the lie, comparable to Seiji Yoshida’s falsehood, about two Japanese soldiers competing in a killing contest of one hundred people…
And that even now the Chinese government continues to take care of the family so that they may live in comfort.
For that alone, it is no exaggeration to call Takayama the greatest journalist of the postwar era.
At the same time…
It also proves that even among Mainichi reporters, the atmosphere for writing such lies was pervasive in postwar Japan.
Japan had been occupied by the GHQ…
And thoroughly…
Brainwashed into believing that Japan was a bad country and the Japanese were a bad people.
As represented by a writer such as Genichiro Takahashi…
Pathetic people who live off Asahi and make a livelihood by flattering Asahi appeared prominently on its pages as writers.
Without even knowing the postwar circumstances, which even a kindergarten child should understand…
People calling themselves former soldiers…
Knew that newspaper reporters would jump at them.
As ideal material for attacking Japan and the Japanese government…
As proof that Japan had done evil things…
As proof that Japan was a bad country.
And so…
People calling themselves former soldiers…
Began telling lies like a flood…
And yet there were those who still sided with Asahi without even understanding that.
That plagiarist and petty-bourgeois fool…
Without even knowing that he himself was a false image created by the publishing company…
Was from the beginning such a fool that he would say that those who criticize Asahi are merely drinking cheap liquor.
Just as any person, if he seriously devotes himself to the same thing for three years, becomes fully competent…
If one were to spend all the hours of one’s life on the profession called writing…
He is such a fool that he does not even know that books bought by shallow trend-followers throughout the world can be written by anyone.
But to return to the point,
By confining the Mainichi Shimbun reporter who fabricated the “hundred-man killing contest” in Beijing…
China extracted more than three trillion yen in ODA from Japan,
And before long…
In substance diverted Japan’s ODA…
Using a gap in American attention, as aid money to Africa…
Built overwhelming interests in Africa…
And created countries that would move as China instructed them to.
That too…
Is one part of the truth behind the acceptance of China’s application to the Memory of the World this time.
There are few things in which every kind of evil is involved as much as in the fabrication of the Nanjing Massacre incident.
And that China, even now…
That is, even at this point today…
Is still receiving more than thirty billion yen in ODA under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs alone…
Most of it in the form of grant aid.
It was almost entirely through the power of the Asahi Shimbun that the government was made to decide on ODA to China.
What evil this is.
Katsuichi Honda of Asahi, no more than a thug like the Mainichi reporter…
Was invited to China…
And perhaps here too the real person responsible was Liao Chengzhi…
And began a serialized piece called Journey on the Silk Road, which was in fact laughable.
There he wrote one lie after another.
The culmination was the century-defining fabricated scoop of tens of thousands massacred in Nanjing.
By this, he became a major bestselling author, and is now a millionaire.
This evil too is terrible.
Asahi is truly unforgivable.
By now, all of them should be charged with treason against the state, given severe punishment, and put into prison.
The time has long since come when we must recognize that the poison spread by this newspaper company…
Is the most vicious of all for Japan and the Japanese people…
The time to punish it has long since arrived.
Speaking of China, where could there be evil greater than this.
The correctness of Tadao Umesao’s conclusion shines like a monumental pinnacle.
The Chinese sphere is a realm of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
The evil of the United States, which wished to camouflage the fact that it dropped the atomic bomb, is also terrible.
To be continued.